[WikiEN-l] Re: Bot for generating articles on cities in Israel

Tue Sep 16 22:56:43 UTC 2003

--- Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:

> Oh geez... If you have some proof, let's see it. 
> Otherwise you're
> just spreading FUD. 

Proof of what?

>Almost every official statistic
> in Wikipedia
> has a political opponent or conspiracy theorist
> ready to challenge
> its validity; 

Can you "prove" this?

> that's why we say "according to the
> Census Bureau"
> or whatever, so if somebody has some differing
> numbers, they
> can add those, citing the alternate source, rather
> than having an
> edit war.  

This is valid.

> In the case of Israel, there are plenty
> of reasons to
> challenge any UN numbers - and plenty of books doing
> just that, in
> great detail - so it's not neutral to simply declare
> that UN
> numbers must be better than Israeli numbers.

What reasons are those?

~S~

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